“The nature of being president is that you’re always asking yourself, `What more can you do?”’ President Barack Obama said today. “Short of going to war,” there is little more the U.S. can do to dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Summertime, and the employment’s easy — in some places. In a display that has the feel of a vital-signs monitor in some hospital ward, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a pretty healthy pulse of summer employment gains in certain...

The U.S. economy added 1.39 million jobs in the first half of this year, the biggest increase over a similar period in eight years. The unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent in June, when payrolls rose by 288,000 following a...

In relentless pursuit of good economic news, today’s monthly employment report has given the White House some cause for smiles. American auto industry added 463,100 jobs over 5 yrs; best growth since 90s. June also best auto sales since ’06....

For the first time in nearly two decades, immigrants no longer account for the majority of Hispanic workers in America, a Pew Research Center report released today shows. That distinction comes as the Latino U.S.-born workforce continues to rapidly expand,...

It was 172 months before May, in January 2000, when the U.S. economy previously added at least 200,000 jobs in four consecutive months. Employers added 217,000 jobs last month to top that threshold for the fourth straight month. The economy...

With thanks to the Economic Policy Institute and the Pew Research Center, here’s a chart that explains why all the job-creation of the latest employment reports — more than 200,000 added in the last month’s accounting by the Labor Department...

That’s how many American adults say they have had to make at least one sacrifice in order to cover their rent or mortgage during the past three years. Among those paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing,...

The U.S. economy will expand at a 3.5 percent annualized rate in the second quarter, according to a median projection of economists. Gross domestic product fell at a 1 percent rate in the first quarter, according to revised Commerce Department...

Forty-seven of the 50 states and the District of Columbia had a lower unemployment rate in April than a year earlier. The biggest one-year drops were reported in South Carolina, where the jobless rate fell to 5.3 percent from 7.9...